Joop Kasteel
17–12 · 30 recorded bouts · 1996–2005
Joop Kasteel finished 94% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 66th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75.2″ (191 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Joop Kasteel, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
17–12
29 bouts on record
Finish rate
94%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
30 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1996–2005
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1998
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
30
30 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | W | Dan Severn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Cheick Kongo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Peter Verschuren | DQ | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Jerrel Venetiaan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Dave Vader | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Barrington Renford Patterson | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Paul Cahoon | Submission | — |
| 2001 | W | Fatih Kocamis | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Hubert Numrich | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Paul Cahoon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Roman Zentsov | Submission | — |
| 2001 | W | Yuriy Kochkine | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Bobby Hoffman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Lee Hasdell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Gilbert Yvel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Tariel Bitsadze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Kiyoshi Tamura | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Henk Kuipers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Masayuki Naruse | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Herman van Tol | KO/TKO | — |
| 1998 | L | Zaza Tkeshelashvili | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Ameran Bitsadze | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Kiyoshi Tamura | KO/TKO | — |
| 1997 | W | Lee Hasdell | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Pete Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Pedro Palm | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Mitsuya Nagai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Rusky Rodgers | — | — |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Joop Kasteel on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-01-06. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.